"In the early 1950s, the lantern, purse and rocking horse pieces were removed and replaced by Scottie dog, a guy riding a horse and a wheelbarrow. More recently, the cannon and horse tokens were pulled, dropping the piece count from 10 to eight."

Special editions of the game, of course, have had other types of tokens — including a train.

Update at 11:15 a.m. ET. Iron Wasn't Prepared For The News:

In an "interview" iron tells our friend Linda Holmes over at Monkey See that "you're never prepared for something like this. ... [But] had a bad vibe coming into the meetings today; the hat wouldn't look me in the eye." There also appears to have been bad blood between iron and thimble.